Who do you think killed JonBenet Ramsey?

[yourhomiebrian]

25 years ago JonBenet Ramsey was murdered. Who do you think most likely did it?

[tsaun]

An accident within the family

[ScaryFog]

It was an accident in the house.

I doubt it was John.
It was either Patsy or Burke. I lean more towards Burke.

There was no intruder. No crime before or since can be linked to it. No one's been running around terrorizing Boulder.

[Hot Jock]

Originally Posted by ScaryFog

It was an accident in the house.

I doubt it was John.
It was either Patsy or Burke. I lean more towards Burke.

There was no intruder. No crime before or since can be linked to it. No one's been running around terrorizing Boulder.

Agreed on all accounts. There are just way too many inconsistencies with the whole “intruder” theory for me. The ransom note in and of itself is enough evidence to me that it was an inside job. The way that Patsy changed the way she wrote the letter “A” for the rest of her life immediately following the crime is just so telling to me. She most definitely wrote the note. I think Burke killed her in a fit of rage and the parents covered up the crime.

[Huskerz85]

Burke accidentally injured her in some way and then her parents (or at least her mom) staged everything else in order to keep the public at large from finding out just how f***ed up he really was.

This thread makes for interesting reading there (and expands upon Burke's "issues")

"I'm not sure whether his parents ignored his issues & swept them under the rug, or chose to remain ignorant in an effort to preserve the illusion their family was 'perfect', but either way, it's obvious Burke was (and probably still is) one f***ed up kid.

Occam's Razor would have him seriously injuring her in some way. Given the fact the autopsy lists strangulation as the cause of death, I think he probably knocked her out initially (feel free to correct me here if I'm wrong).

If the Ramsays would've taken her to the hospital and it eventually got out Burke was responsible, Patsy's illusion of the 'perfect family' would've been shattered I'm sure. The thought of being mired in such shame & scandal was totally inconceivable to her and so she went off the deep end and actually killed Jon Benet.

As many criminals failed to do though, Patsy didn't think this through. Fashioning a garrote using one of her own paintbrushes, writing a three page ransom note, mentioning a ransom amount that would only be known to John, his employer and his family and then leaving that note in an obscure location of the home used only by the family are dead giveaways IMO.

The sloppy, incompetent response on the part of the police to me, means that other things like DNA, footprints, the pineapple, are red herrings (the pineapple could've set Burke off, sure, but the mere presence of it in Jon Benet's body and how long it had been there is of little consequence) "

[Heenan Fan]

I agree with everything said so far. I believe Burke killed her on accident or snapped and the parents didn't want to lose both kids, so they covered it up. Eventually, the cops covered up for the Ramsay's.

[Coffeecup]

I can't picture any of the family putting a garret around the the little girls neck. What was so terrible to me that the crime scene had people walking all around. The minute the child was found, the police should have order everyone out. Everyone out.

[5thcorps]

Detective Joe Kenda of "Homicide Hunter" fame was approached after he retired from Colorado Springs P.D. by Boulder Colorado P.D. to come out of retirement and take over the case. Joe Kenda has the national record of highest percentage of homicide cases solved, 92%. And some of the "unsolved" ones he knows who did it but had a lack of evidence or suspects passed away. He stated on a cruise that he took many of the files home and read through them. He returned all the files and said "You'll never get a conviction, the investigation was bumbled from the very start." He then went on to say he firmly believes it was a family member but the horrible investigation that was done will prevent a conviction from ever coming.

[ScaryFog]

Originally Posted by Coffeecup

I can't picture any of the family putting a garret around the the little girls neck.

I don’t think anyone in the house did that for their own sick pleasure. It was done to deflect off anyone in the house to get your exact reaction.

You want to protect your family, but once one of them is dead, the priority goes to the living. If others in the house are now facing jail time, defiling the dead might be a necessary evil. Then people think, a family member wouldn’t have done that. Mission accomplished.

[dynoguy88]

Burke accidentally killed her. The next door neighbor witnessed him swing a golf club at JonBenet the previous year, barely missing her face. An inch closer and he could have killed her then. The kid needed therapy then and nothing was done about it.

For me, the biggest question is when or if the Ramseys ever made it known to Burke that his sister died at his hand. Being young, you might have been able to convince him at first. Eventually, he might have started asking questions and the parents would convince him that they knew it was a tragic accident and this must be kept secret.

Whatever the case, Burke was a messed up kid who's creepiness was still apparent as an adult when he did that Doctor Phil interview a couple years ago. His family is extremely wealthy so they can keep him hidden from public and the less people he's around, the better.

[diesteldorf]

Originally Posted by 5thcorps

Detective Joe Kenda of "Homicide Hunter" fame was approached after he retired from Colorado Springs P.D. by Boulder Colorado P.D. to come out of retirement and take over the case. Joe Kenda has the national record of highest percentage of homicide cases solved, 92%. And some of the "unsolved" ones he knows who did it but had a lack of evidence or suspects passed away. He stated on a cruise that he took many of the files home and read through them. He returned all the files and said "You'll never get a conviction, the investigation was bumbled from the very start." He then went on to say he firmly believes it was a family member but the horrible investigation that was done will prevent a conviction from ever coming.

I remembered hearing something on one of the episodes of "Homicide Hunter." However, I believe you may be thinking about detective Lou Smit, a friend of Kenda's. Lou retired and then came back to investigate JonBenet. He passed away in 2010.

[Killarney Rose]

I believe that I did read that Kenda said this.

[Stratego]

Originally Posted by Coffeecup

I can't picture any of the family putting a garret around the the little girls neck.

If you read the ransom letter, the writer seems to live in their own little, overdramatic, over-the-top world. I could see them do it, because in their mind it would make sense, even though it wasn't
actually necessary to go to such lengths.

[TheCars1986]

Your love for your child is unconditional. Your love for your spouse is conditional; you murder my child I don't love you anymore.

John Ramsey. Take of that what you will.

[LooksLikeCRicci]

I believe Burke did it, more than likely accidentally. Patsy panicked and covered it up.